10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. …
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)When we have read Edom’s doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done ? What is the ground of God’s controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom; they were a sinful people, and a people laden with iniquity . But that one single crime which is laid to their charge, as filling their measure and bringing this ruin upon them, that for which they he…
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